TMC: Thirty Miles of Corruption

MERRY CHRISTMAS RIVERSIDE…

BUT TMC HAS NOT FORGOTTEN, THE YEARLY CITY COUNCIL CHRISTMAS VIDEO..

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IT TAKES ALOT TO KEEP THESE BOYS HONEST AND TRANSPARENT.. LAST YEAR TMC WAS THREATENED WITH A SLAP SUIT, APPEARING TO BE FROM THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE IN THE COMMENT SECTION FOR OUR RENDITION OF OUR CHRISTMAS VIDEO 2011, WELL, GO FIGURE…NO TELLING WHO IF ANY OF THE ABOVE WAS RESPONSIBLE…  BUT PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GIVE YOUR COMMENTS, IF YOU DARE… FREE AS FREEDOM IS ON TMC…  AND FOR SOME, TAXPAYER MONIES IS NOTHING BUT A SLUSH FUND OR AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT WHEN YOU ‘NEED TO EAT.’

RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN….

The Potter Hotel, Corner of Market St. and Ninth St., Riverisde, CA

TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!  TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED.  I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU.  RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS..  TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!   COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM

UPDATE: CITY COUNCIL POSTPONES CONTINUATION OF THE RELIABILITY CHARGE FOR TRANSMISSION LINES TILL FEBRUARY 5, 2012.  THE QUESTION IS IF THIS CHARGE IS ILLEGAL AND REALLY A TAX?  IF IT IS A TAX IT MAY VIOLATE PROPOSITION 26.  A question brought several times at City Council, and not addressed.  The Reliability Charge came to council in and around 2008, and was sold to council at the time for Transmission Lines.  Currently, Dave Wright gives a different story, the story being the fine print not emphasized to the Council at the time, whereby the reliability charge goes to pay for multiple items.  Further, Mr. Wright addressed the Council and mentioned there was a sense of “urgency” on this project.  The next question is the cost and funding.

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FIRST DAY ON THE JOB, AND THE MAYOR BAILEY WANTS TO RAISE UTILITY RATES, SPECIFICALLY THE TRASH!  NEXT UP, THE RELIABILITY CHARGE RESIDENT HAVE BEEN PAYING FOR SIX YEARS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TRANSMISSIONS LINES.  IT NEVER ENDS, BUT NEXT UP, THE COUNCIL AND THE NEW MAYOR WILL NOW CONSIDER GIVING THEMSELVES A RAISE UP TO 5%.  FINALLY, MAYOR BAILEY’S NEW OFFICE BUDGET EXCEEDS $116,100.00 OVER THE PROJECTED FOR YEAR 2012/2013 as indicated on the financial statement for general fund expenditure forecast below.  Even Councilman Paul Davis showed concern with this figure at the Finance Meeting, and questioned the excessive amount.  Is this an indication of more to come by self proclaimed “independent voice” for the community of Riverside?  Is it because the rate payers are now responsible for a questionable lease, which appeared to be conjured up by former City Manager Brad Hudson?  Or is it to pad his new budget?  Or will it be to pad his salary?  While every other department are making cuts (figures in parenthesis), his does not.  With our next door neighbor, the City of San Bernardino, filing bankruptcy, former Mayor Loveridge found it appropriate to give his staff a 10% to 15% raise regardless.  While the economic standard is 1%-3%, Mayor Luv was giving his Chief of Staff, Kristin Tilquist a 15% raise!  Eric Ustation, assistant to Mayor Ron O. Loveridge and Government Affairs Representative at Riverside Transit Agency also received a 15% raise!  Even Lizette Navarette, Mayor’s Community Relations person, a 10% raise!  All this in lieu of approximately 40 city employees recently layed off.

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As TMC understands, Item#6 and #13 on the City Council Agenda is for a continuation of the Reliability Charges on your utility bill.   The City of Riverside has been collecting monies from taxpayers in the form of the reliability charge for six years.  Ask the city how much is left in their account, zero! There was a clause unbeknownst, that money could be used for projects etc. other than it’s intended  purpose…which of course was for new transmission lines.  But the realiability charge could also be considered illegal, a clear violation of Proposition 26, in that there is no real direct benefit to residential customers. These new transmission lines are meant for new potential residences, and usually the developer takes part in this cost for construction.

An article in the Petuluma 360 states that in a recent court ruling that if a benefit isn’t tied directly to the fund, fees or taxes to pay for it must be approved by voters.  This was in response to a law suit which claimed that the city of Petaluma, CA  had wrongfully diverted at least $4.7 million from the wastewater fund, which comes from ratepayers’ bills, and spent it as part of the general fund.

FOLLOW UP ON THE ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST COUNCILMAN WILLIAM “RUSTY” BAILEY:  As indicated in the Press Enterprise, the majority of the school board were in support of Councilman William “Rusty” Bailey in his efforts to attain the Mayors seat.  Regarding Moreno’s concern that those handling the Bailey investigation could be “best buddies”, she was right on.  But the question is, where do we go from here?  Shouldn’t those supporter have know better, and recuse themselves?  The right thing to do would have been to bring someone to independently investigate the incident, devoid of any connection with the “Team Bailey” camp, in order to receive an unbiased assessment.

Tom Hunt, RUSD Board, responded in defense of Bailey, when allegations of wrongdoing were brought up by Former Deputy City Attorney Raychele Sterling and Self Appointed Citizen Auditor Vivian Moreno at a School Board Meeting on October 15, 2012.  This, without hearing all the facts.

TOM HUNT

Wade Coe, Principal of Poly High, with a Bailey sign in front of his home.  Mr. Coe heading off the investigation of a teacher he oversees, Councilman William “Rusty” Bailey, would this be considered conflict of interest?Poly High Principal, Wade Coe

Mike Fine fires off the following letter to Self Appointed Citizen Auditor Vivian Moreno.

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Vivian Moreno responds with a letter of her own to Mike Fine (seen above) and friends, when denied her request for public records.

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BAILEY ETHICS COMPLAINT: CITY ATTORNEY INTERFERING AGAIN?  WAS THE ETHICS BOARD TOLD BY CITY ATTORNEY GREG PRIAMOS THERE NEEDS TO BE A “FAVORABLE OUTCOME”, REFERRING TO COUNCILMAN AND NOW MAYOR WILLIAM “RUSTY” BAILEY?

Another bit of information coming down the TMC pipeline is a girl in a red dress who went up to visit a councilman on the seventh floor, where the two met on the city hall balcony.  Does Chuck Conder know who this is ?

What was really going on in the Bailey camp?  Misinformation on the campaign trail with a mailer? Photos taken from the TMC site for campaign purposes?  Misinformation by a Bailey supporter Jim Stewart and youtube video attempting to disseminate information which has been diffused by Bailey’s own documents which were not interpreted correctly.  But continued to stand by his interpretation of his opponents contracts in lieu of the correct information he had, and displayed on his web site.  The contracts state differently then what Bailey and Stewart interpreted.  What now?  His current paranoia with his own emails and public records request?  Regarding emails, Bailey has had a track record of misuse of public emails in clear violation of the state constitution.

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Some of the comment to Jim Stewart’s video were quit remarkable, in that they were ultimately deleted.  TMC was able to attain some of the original comments.

• Oh, this guy has no clue…. So in other words what your saying, Jimmy, is for all the contracts Rusty Bailey has VOTED APPROVAL ON as Councilman (using his political influence, of course) for other Riverside companies, (ie Stronghold, Albert A. Webb, AMR, etc etc) who have turned around and funded his campaign (money in Rusty’s pockets), via donations, is something we should look for in a mayoral candidate? Seems like the same thing to me?

Ted Nelson 1 hour ago

• first off…who the hell appointed this guy to a city commission?!? now he is junk emailing me with this crap…did the city give him my email????  second….he seems like a loose canon to me, false information, unsubstantiated allegations!!!!

skip9480 56 minutes ago

• You, sir, are entitled to your own opinion, but you are absolutely not entitled to your own facts.  That you would let your bias against the truth overwhelm your good sense highlights your ineligibility to serve. I would call on you to resign before you do more damage to the reputation of our great city. It is always of great profit to know what someone is speaking about before one opens their mouth. Something you are clearly unaware of. Perhaps you should objectively look at Rusty’s record.

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• I think is all good and I will be voting for him

David Gonzales 15 minutes ago

TMC is later told that Jim Stewart is more of a supporter, and connected to the Bailey camp as well as his good relationship with Bailey’s Campaign consultant Toby Holmes.

Rusty has Matt Rexroad, Consultant, because of course Rusty would never make the call himself, and asked about the association of Vivian Moreno and a former Adkison campaign consultant Jason Finizza.  Now folks the point is he “expressed concern” that someone continued to request public records on Councilman and Mayor elect William “Rusty” Bailey, how dare they, it appears.  Why would a public elected official feel threatened by a public records request?  It’s not illegal, but meant for the public to have access to transparency?  I know Bailey is not against transparency, well, I hope not, but why the call?  Now this a person, whom on campaign literature emphasizes the following, “as mayor, I’ll stand for people, not politics.”

Because Ed was asked by Bailey’s Campaign Consultant what was his former campaign aid doing with self appointed citizen auditor Vivian Moreno regarding public records.  It appears that city hall insiders flagged Bailey, as they do when public records regarding himself are requested.  So therefore, Ed Adkison responded to him by the following statement regarding public records request, a right bestowed to every citizen in order that we have access to the activities of our elected officials, after all, we the citizens are there employers.  “ I am surprised that this was again questioned to me through my campaign consultant. If I am behind something, I will come out and stand proud of it, just as I made a public records request in my own name and not a surrogate.  A public records request should be welcomed by anyone before during or after an election or otherwise.  Any future questions about individuals making public records request shouldn’t be directed to me or my campaign but rather to the individuals making the requests.”  In other words, why the concern, when public records should be an accepted fact of an elected official, and welcomed as part of the democratic process of government transparency.

Of course, Matt assured Bailey of the same thing, but this Bailey became a question of concern..  The concern being can Bailey hold it together when he seems to be quickly distracted by irrelevant issues?  But I always come to the issue of how the masses choose their leaders, when so called leaders and their counterparts appear to manipulate scenarios to reach an illusionary form of them…so would we really choose them at all if we knew their true abilities?

If you took the oath of office to be the Mayor or city attorney or city manager or be a city employee, you pledge to uphold the state constitution among other things.  Why would you decide to violate that pledge by continuing to illegally use state property in order to promote ones campaign?  Specifically article 16 of the State Constitution.

What would happen if the the City Attorney again interfered with the decision making process of the Ethics Committee regarding Councilman Bailey’s ethics complaint?  What if City Attorney Greg Priamos suggested the need for “a favorable outcome?”  If this is true, did he decide this himself? Or was he given a directive from a higher source?

Poly High Principal Wade Coe’s home harbored a “Bailey” sign.  Could he be unbiased in the process of investigating the complaint against Councilman Bailey?  Why would the Mike Fine, of the School Board and Bailey supporter, refuse our public records request for the methodology of the investigation?  Of course, Mr. Fine’s refusal is a violation of the Public Records Request Act.

Who will be Rusty’s council replacement when he is sworn in December 10?  Another independent voice? Or a protégé of the original?

Vivian Moreno told Press Enterprise Alicia Robinson that the investigation could all be buddies.  Well lo and behold they all were…

All we ask that Mayor Rusty Bailey and supporter Jim Stewart take a course in contract law in order to fully understand the differences in city contracts.  Incidently, Jim Stewart is one of eight commissioner on the City of Riverside Airport Commission.  Riversidian’s are asking, how do you get a position on the Airport Commission without having a clear understanding of economics, city finances and especially contracts?

THE ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST COUNCILMAN CHRIS MAC ARTHUR: WILL CITY ATTORNEY GREG PRIAMOS SPEAK TO THE ETHICS PANEL AGAIN IN THE IMPORTANCE OF A “FAVORABLE OUTCOME”?  Of course the misunderstanding, why Councilman Chris Mac Arthur?  The point being that as his superior, he is ultimately responsible for the actions of their subordinates, of course, being Legislative Aid Charles “Chuck” Condor.  Today, a special panel made up of Larry Allen, Crista Curtis, James Perry, Cyndi Pardee, Bernie Titus and Robert Wade heard a complaint filed by Dvonne Pitruzzello against City Councilman Chris Mac Arthur.  The panel found that the Councilman did not the violate the city’s ethic code by addressing the complaints against his legislative aide, Charles “Chuck” Conder, who has been with the councilman since he was elected.  The premiss of this complaint by Pitruzzello was the councilmans action of inaction.  In otherwords, their was a pattern of vulgar behavior that continued to occur, one allegedly violent, and he continued to be in the employment of the city, whereby other employees were fired for actually doing their job of protecting the city from liability, as in the former Deputy City Attorney Raychele Sterling case.

Three of the incidents that occurred from witnesses were as follows: Public Speaker Marjorie Von Pohle indicated she was sitting with her niece.  In the back row were two military men and an unknown man at the time.  When public speaker Karen Wright entered the council chambers, this person made the comment to the other military men that “she’s the biggest bitch around”.  Van Pohle later ask for the indentity of that person, and later found it was Councilman’s Chris Mac Arthur’s legislative aide, Chuck Conder.

In another incident, Self Appointed Citizen Auditor Vivian Moreno stated as she entered the door of a meeting room, Conder called them “stupid bitches”.  Former Deputy City Attorney Raychele Sterling brought this up to Councilman Mac Arthur.  Moreno stated that later she found Conder was on administrative leave, maybe Chris did something about it, later found out about the knife wielding incident between Conder and then Councilman and now Mayor William “Rusty” Bailey’s legislative aide, Mark Earley.  The last incident occurred at City Council when at public speaking Dvonne Pitruzzello brought to the attention the incident regarding Conder.  Conder was sitting and listening in the back of the Council Chambers.  When she walked down the isle to exit the rear of the chambers, Conder placed his middle finger in front of his face toward her.  Pitruzzello interrupted the Council meeting to bring this vulgar act to the attention of the Council and Mayor.

The confusion started when Councilman Mac Arthur disgarded his connection with Conder, and said he works for the city.  City Manager Scott Barbers stated he is an “at will” employee.  So now we are to understand that Mr. Conder as an employee, is now under the responsibility of the City Manager, Scott Barber.  Then complaints would trigger Rhonda Strout of Human Resources.  Regardless, Pitruzzello states she will appeal.  Allegation of the knife wielding incident continues to be under investigation by OSHA.  TMC understands when OSHA contacted Human Resources Rhonda Strout, she stated to them that the incident never occurred, this in lieu of witnesses and a tape recording of the event.

Sources state Mac Arthur is responsible for the actions and behavior of his legislative aide, so was this simply an attempt by city personal to distract and convolute the ethics process?

CHEETOS TWO FROM THE CHEETOS CHIEF..

The Chief in the news again with his remarks regarding the use of technology in Police vehicles while driving.  We understand that their were several other incidents of pedestrians being hit by RPD vehicles while distracted.  It’s still okay in the City of Riverside, just as Red Light Cameras are.  Currently, Chief Sergio Diaz has yet to appologize to public speaker Karen Wright, in his verbal and slanderous accosting in public at a city council this last summer.  Even at Rusty Bailey’s innauguration; when Wrights name was mentioned at public speaking that she wouldn’t come back, Bailey supporters in the back of me were stating, “Good!”, and “she deserved it”, in reference to her arrest.  I still feel there is much work to be done in the City of Riverside, before many of the constituents safe enough to feel that they will not be retaliated against for what they say.

For the common citizen, we continue to be below the radar in regards to our ability to multi task.  Oh Darn!  I guess it’s back to our basements to sit and watch Judge Judy in our underwear with a nice big bowl of Cheetos.

CITY OF RIVERSIDE OUTSTANDING ACCRUING DEBT $159 MILLION PER YEAR? MORE TO COME..

BAD STOP SIGNS?

Would you believe getting a parking ticket when the city sign looks like this?  According to residents in the area, many who never even noticed there was a sign, had been parking there for years.  Recently, in lieu of a city in need of money due to higher debt, it appears Code Enforcement are now out on weekends, doing what they do best….ticketing.  Can you believe that the sign before this pic was actually closer to the ground and with it’s true metal exposure.  In otherwords, after the complaint, the sign was bent back upwords as shown and the post painted yellow for better viewing. Of course, the sign remains unviewable and faded.

SELF APPOINTED CITIZEN AUDITOR, VIVIAN MORENO’S SEND OFF TO MAYOR RON OLIVER LOVERIDGE AND CITY COUNCIL DECEMBER 4, 2012

Mr. Mayor, I would like to thank you for all your years of service.  But as I reminisce, I look back at what you have left the citizens of Riverside and our beautiful City of Riverside.

You have left us your vision of the Renaissance.  Your 80 million dollar Fox Plaza, your 13 million dollar Main Street Walk Way, your 3 million dollar Raincross Café.

You made sure all your friends were taken care of.  You made sure Cindy, the chamber queen, had plenty of money to run her show.  You took care of Webb Engineering, Ted Weggland, Debbie Guthrie, Connie Leach, Duane Roberts and BB&K.  You made sure you had plenty of money for breakfast, lunch & dinner, and traveling.

But what did you leave the citizens of Riverside?  You left us with extremely high utility bills, customer service charges, public benefit charges, reliability charges and utility service charges.

You left us with tickets, plenty of tickets!  You left us with parking tickets, street sweeping tickets, dog tag tickets, red light camera tickets, alley way cleaning tickets and wood burning tickets.

You left us with the largest bond debt in the history of Riverside.  And as President of the National League of Cities, you willingly and knowingly violated proposition 218, and applied extra water rates on the backs of the rate payers.

You left us with an annual accruing debt of about 140 million dollars a year.  You left us with the worst debt in the history of Riverside and we will never recover, and I don’t care what Scott Barber says.  As you were giving raises to your staff, Scott Barber was laying off 40 employees.

Now that you go off to retirement heaven.  I hope you can sleep at night when many of your citizens are hungry, cold and thirsty because they can’t pay their utility bill or parking tickets.

PUBLIC SPEAKER DVONNE PITRUZZELLO LIMERICK TO MAYOR RON OLIVER LOVERIDGE..MAYOR O MAYOR, RONALD O. LOVERIDGE, THAT’S ALL..

There once was a great man who came to our city, And when he got here he said what a pity.  He soon found others as great as he was, and immediately formed a committee.  His name was John North and he had a vision.  His committee needed to make a decision.

There were men of great minds, great ethics and kind.  And would have never have been so completely blind.  But what our city really needed was economic stability.  So the committee decided to start a utility.

One hundred years later came but another, but this time the city should fear.  His name was Ronald Oliver Loveridge, and this leader his intentions were not so clear.  He quickly dismantled our economic advantage and soon we were left with his knowledge and his damage, and what he told us was unclear.

King Ronnie decided without a committee to bring in the evil one Brad, he was bad, but they soon found out he was even stark raving mad.  And when Brad Hudson arrived everyone thought he was great, and we soon paid the price for everything that he ate.  And our debt began to accelerate.

So without hesitation Brad, the cad, starting putting in place a most disastrous of fate and making sure that the bread was buttered on Ronnie’s plate.

And King Ronnie would be King of all Kings, Cindy would be Queen of all Queens.  And Queen Cindy would be in charge of many new things, including redistricting.  She would form a committee of just a few to make sure htat at Ronnie’s bequest, a building is named after he’s left.

Such heartache to employees, they were treated so bad and debt that would ring for 252 years, cha ching, cha ching.

Debt of 4.4 billion in all, and maybe that’s higher, we really aren’t sure, cause Ronnie’s a liar.   We do know that things stank and that there are other banks, but we still don’t know the prank of all pranks.  But one day we’ll find out and then we will shout, The King of all Kings, Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge, will fall, sitting in jail pondering the shortfall.

But King Ronnie he swore to the citizens, don’t worry, things are just great!  Just look at the Fox Theater, and look at the Hyatt, but most of all look at my employees pension spiking pay-rate, it’s a riot.

What King Ronnie knew that no one else did, was that we are bankrupt, but he did what he did.  And now he is leaving and the citizens are seething, and he will be remembered for all of his thieving.  Our water bills high and electric even higher, but again remember, Ronnie’s a liar.

Good bye Mr. Hudson, Mr. De Santis, Ms. Leach and Sundeen.  Ronnie will be joining you on the beach with sunscreen.  All with their retirements as big as their grins, cause the screwed us poor citizens and it just begins.  We will be left with a debt that’s audacious, but remember dear Ronnie, I’m tenacious, as heck, and one day you will pay back the citizens with your retirement check.

So farewell for right now and good riddance to all, but just remember dear Ronnie, you will take the fall.  Mayor o Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge, that’s all.

– written by Riverside Mayoral Candidate Dvonne Pitruzzello, and former employee of Mayor Ron O. Loveridge.

RIVERSIDE CONVENTION CENTER SET TO COST MORE IN THE TUNE OF ANOTHER $3,000,000.00…

MAYOR LUV’S LAST WORDS TO HIS EMPLOYEES…HOW HARD WAS IT TO SAY I LOVE YOU IN AN EMAIL?

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Some our asking, who wrote it?  Mayor Luv or an aspiring two year?  Well Luv and Kisses anyway…  “God Speed”, isn’t that a term Mayor Rusty Bailey uses?

THE THREE WAY SWAP BRING UP IT’S UGLY HEAD AGAIN..  Since it’s conception, city hall critics have been bringing these issue to Council with non addressing it properly.  Councilman Paul Davis says we need to go forward.  As to say let’s just forget about this one.

But for the taxpayer Councilman Davis,  it not that forgettable.  Is this a gift of public funds to a developer?  Is this a conflict of interest with BB&K, a law firm which is so embedded and in bed with the city in terms of it being it’s hired hand for law work?  TMC wrote about this July 30, 2011 about the notorious three way swap, which appear to ultimately benefit one of their compadres Mark Rubin.. The Press Enterprise Dan Berstein had much to say about this in his story, “The Winners? not necessarily Riverside Public Utility Payers”  Even Berstein get’s it!

CONGRATULATIONS TO WILLIAM “RUSTY” BAILEY, SWORN IN BY DAD, JUDGE WILLIAM R. BAILEY II,  AND FRIEND, FORMER JUDGE JOHN GABBERT.  Criticism has been made that he ran for Council for his ward, once elected, decided to run for mayor, never fullfilling his obligation to his community.  The same set of circumstances occurred with Councilman Mike Gardner, but in the end placed his support toward Rusty.

RIVERSIDE NUMBER 6 ON LIST OF DIRTIEST CITIES: This includes San Bernardino and the City of Riverside.  We know that the State of California has directed their Superfund for clean up in the City of Riverside, specifially the Main Street area as indicated in this TMC report with regards to Hexavalent contamination in the water.  Also there is concern in Councilmans Steve Adams Ward with regards to the Agricultural Park and PCB contamination as well as hexavalent chrominium contamination.

ACCORDINGLY PUBLIC SPEAKER KAREN WRIGHT WON’T BE BACK TO CITY COUNCIL…COURT DATE DECEMBER 27, 2012  It was with disgust that I had to hear from a group of Bailey supporter right in back of me that day that Rusty was sworn in, that I heard “she deserved it”, when public speakers asked council to drop the charges.  When public speakers told the council that she wouldn’t be back, I heard, “Good!”

CITIES WHERE YOU CAN BUY A HOUSE FOR HALF THE PRICE.  FORCLOSURE RELATED SALES IN RIVERSIDE-ONTARIO-SAN BERNARDINO HAS ACCOUNTED FOR 47% OF ALL SALES.

DON’T FORGET YOUR COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED!

RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN…

The Tetley Hotel, Eighth and Lime Streets, Riverside

TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!  TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED.  I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU.  RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS..  TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!   COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM

A U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal plays taps during a service for the dead before leaving the island to the Army, 1942.

We couldn’t help but wonder what may have occurred behind the closed doors of the Mayor’s chamber..did Priamos apologize profusely for his actions to the Mayor?  or was the Mayor angry and lectured Priamos? We couldn’t help but imagine…

or does the mayor have a special “apology” key on his laptop in which he command one to apologize when politically necessary?

The following is the play by play apology given publicly, not for the public, but to the Council and the Mayor:

Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council.

First I’d like to take this opportunity to express my sincere apologies for the issues and distractions that my actions may have caused over the last several weeks.  Second, I would like to address the letter from the RPOA to the mayor and council.  Unfortunately Brian Smith, the president of RPOA, did not speak before he wrote and sent that letter. Brian and I spoke last evening and we discussed the call I received from the Press Enterprise.  I advised him that it was never my intention nor would I ever want to create an issue from this incident.  I also advised him that I made a brief comment to the officer on the way out of the chambers that afternoon.  I advised  him that my first notice that anything was in the police report was the call from the press enterprise.  I also advised him that I was not suggesting nor would I suggest that the officer did not have cause to act.

He apologized for not calling me before sending that letter.  He stated that he did not believe for a moment that I directed the officer to arrest Ms. Wright.  I apologized  for this unfortunate situation.  And I advised him that I would not want to harm the relationship with the officers of my client department of which I worked so hard to develop over these past 20 years.  I also advised him that I very much valued my relationship with the RPD and it’s officers.  At the end of our discussion, he said that he considered this matter closed as far as the RPOA is concerned.  And He and I agreed to speak in the future,  if there was ever a problem or an issue.  Third, I would like to clarify that any City Manager, senior city staff or any elected official directed me to speak with the officer following the afternoon meeting  on October  23rd regarding  Ms. Wright.  Finally it was never my intention to cause any complications or problems, and for that, I sincerely apology.

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First, what I found quite discerning was Priamos’s continued use of the term “advised.”  He was always “advising”, now let’s not forget this is an apology, and he is now “advising” the president of RPOA, Brian Smith, of how it is.  I found it condenscending.  The term “advised” in Webster’s can have a number of different conatations such as:  admonish, advocate, caution, charge, commend, counsel, direct, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, exhort, forewarn, give a pointer, give a tip, guide, instruct, kibitz, level with, move, opine, point out, preach, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put bug in ear, put in two cents, recommend, steer, suggest, tout, update, urge, and warn.  So if you are now buddies with Smith, wouldn’t the conversation be on equal and amical terms?

Second, this apology was made toward the Mayor and Council…why wasn’t there an apology to Officer Sahagun? Or the RPOA? Or Ms. Karen Wright? Or to the community of Riverside for another nation wide City Hall public relations debacle?  So now will the charges be dropped against Ms. Wright?  After all it just appears now to be just a big misunderstanding… but again, was this only an apology to the mayor and council for publicly embarrassing them?  Or should they all on the daiz apologize to each other, since they all had something to say which was quite inaccurate to begin with.  Shouldn’t the mayor, council and city attorney simply take responsibility?  Taking responsibility would be an action that would heal the community, and that we would never see.  An apology would be an action of admitting guilt, and that certainly would not be tolerated by the City Hall moguls.  Transparency takes a back seat for now, at least for the City Attorney, the Mayor and some Council members.

Thirdly, I find it quite remarkable that in this apology, the community still doesn’t have a transparent answer as to what really happened.  You would think after this “rant”, oops that’s a term used for gadflys.  Let’s try it again.  You would think after his sincere apology, he would find it appropriate to drop the charges against Ms. Wright.

Fourthly, if the City Manager nor any of the elected officials was responsible for giving Priamos the directive, than why hide under “attorney-client” privilege?  Who was the client if you were solely responsible for the directive given to Officer Sahagun?  You certainly cannot be both the “attorney” and “client” at the same time.  But if you are not completely forthcoming with your response, we must certainly ascertain that your “client”, is the Mayor and and those on the council.  Regardless, the community is still not buying it.

Now, this was not Officer’s Nick Sahagun’s first time lending police security to Council Meetings, he was a familiar figure to all, and by all considered a nice guy, even the gadfly’s like him.  So you must understand that his behavior that day was considerably unusual and out of the ordinary.  Priamos again continues to skew this issue and has yet, in the name of transparency, has refused to give an explanation what he exactly said to Officer Sahagun.  But to call Officer Sahagun’s police report “inaccurate” is not only wreckless, but states that the officer was lying.  Lying on a police report is a criminal act.  If that is true, why haven’t charges been brought up against Officer Sahagun?

I must say that every time an elected or staff official speaks the greater the mystery becomes, more holes than what you find in block of swiss cheese.

RPOA Brian Smith responded to the city’s accusation of inaccuracy in a police report by spewing off a fiery response letter, now the City Attorney and RPOA President are best friends.  What is it?  Does Priamos want to keep his police radio, emergency police lights and siren in his vehicle?  What political prowess entered into the equation between City Hall moguls and RPOA President in order to drastically change the perception?

Brian you have nothing to apologize for, the city was throwing one of your officers under the bus and responded as you should have.  We are not even sure if Priamos is telling us the truth about you apologizing, since he never really tells the truth to begin with.  From our perspective he was only “advising” you.  With that said, I’ll leave it at that.

CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL LETTER

First, when Priamos calls the police report “inaccurate”, he is calling that officer a liar.  Brian Smith, RPOA President states, “we call that a lie in the profession and the State of California calls it lying in a police report a crime.”  So if it is in fact a lie will Priamos prosecute for Officer Sahagun falsifying a police report?  To this day it remains unclear what Priamos meant by referring to the report as “inaccurate.”  In addition, has yet to give an explanation of what was actually said between himself and Officer Sahagun.

Secondly, Smith calls Priamos on his reckless use of invoking “attorney-client” privilege, when the press asked for a response.  Smith also assumes by Priamos hiding under “attorney-client” privilege, the client must be Officer Sahagun or one if not all of the elected on the dais.  Each time Priamos opens his mouth or doesn’t open his mouth, the questions of his “inaccuracies” become evident.

Thirdly, as Smith states, “the new protocol established empowering the official holding the gavel (mayor or mayor pro temp) being the determinate factor in where there will be police involvement is not good business.”   But Chief Sergio Diaz will be at the next City Council November 13 presenting and explaining the new protocol in decorum, and after all that has happened , Diaz appears not to find what he will present odd..

Now, I’ll tell you, how Priamos and Smith became buddies after these choice words is quite remarkable, after all the letter was quite to the point, and gave some insight to past City Hall antics.  A damaging letter?  Of course, we must mitigate a public relations nightmare by a surgical dose of damage control.  Did Priamos decide it would be in the best interest of his clients, the council and mayor, that he’d take care of this issue before it reaches an uncontrollable level?  Or did the mayor and some council members just simply told him to take care of it?

If Priamos took it personally upon himself to tell the officer to take care of it.  Shouldn’t Priamos be fired?  But on the other hand, it’s quite possible that the mayor may have had something do with this, because the mayor is solely responsible, and always have been, for directives regarding the control of city council meetings.  The chief of police bringing in new rules now appears to be ludicrous.  Rules have always been in place.  Another diversion tactic by the mayor to spin blame and deviate from responsibility?

Questions arise and continue to arise because of the City’s problematic acceptance of transparency, creating an inundation of possible scenarios of what actually happened.  But for most of us who have simply read the writing on the wall, the chain of events appear quite evident.  But for now, I guess we should just say thank-you Priamos for that sort of heart felt apology, but again, if this was some sort of great misunderstanding, shouldn’t you have included in your apology, an apology to Ms. Karen Wright and then drop the charges?

Dan Berstein of the Press Enterprise makes this whole debacle a game show, “To tell the truth!”  We now ask, “Will the real mayor please stand up!”

UPDATE: 11/13/2012: THE CROSS WAS BOSS AT TONIGHTS CITY COUNCIL  With over 300 people in attendance, council doors were closed early.  The City made room outside the council chambers with chairs and a flat screen television, even the cafeteria area of City Hall was utilized with more flat screen t.v.’s to accomadate the issue of the cross on Mt. Rubidoux.

It appears a group from Washington D.C. questioned Riverside’s cross on Mt. Rubidoux as a religious symbol, and states that it violates the first ammendment by crossing the line between the issue of seperation of church and state.  The question is should we litigate it in court, donate it to a foundation or sell it to a private entity who will maintain the property.  The issue is not over, the council Voted to discuss this issue more in depth with community imput.  Litigation would be a costly choice.  The question of what benefit does this group filing this law suit get if won, is unknown.

UPDATE: 11/14/2012: WHAT! MAYOR LUV AND YOUNG UCR CAMPUS GIRLS? STAY TUNED..

UPDATE: 11/19/2012: WHAT! CITY ATTORNEY GREG PRIAMOS CONFERS WITH THE ETHICS BOARD MEMBERS FOR A FAVORABLE OUTCOME?

TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!  TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED.  I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU.  RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS..  TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!   COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.”

Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11, 1919: President Wilson proclaims the first Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”

November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars.

The original concept for the celebration was for the suspension of business for a two minute period beginning at 11 A.M., with the day also marked by parades and public mettings.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.  – Abraham Lincoln

UPDATE:11/07/2012: BAILEY ELECTED MAYOR OVER ADKISION!

UPDATE: 11/06/2012: CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY: CITY ATTORNEY GREGORY PRIAMOS APOLOGIZES FOR THE EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE.  PRIAMO STATES, NO ONE PERSON GAVE HIS INSTRUCTIONS TO GIVE THE DIRECTIVE TO THE POLICE OFFICER, CONTRADICTING HIS CLAIM OF “ATTORNEY-CLIENT” PRIVIVLEGE, WHICH WOULD INDICATE SOMEONE ELSE IS INVOLVED!   IN LIEU OF THE APOLOGY,  PRIAMOS MADE NO CORRESPONDING STATEMENTMORE TO INDICATE THAT CHARGES WOULD BE DROPPED AGAINST MS. KAREN WRIGHT…

What’s next in line for City Council, Mayor and City Attorney at tomorrows City Council Meeting, when the growing community support for RPD Officer Nick Sahagun is multiplying?  It didn’t take long after the arrest of public speaker Karen Wright that City Hall begin to wash their hands of the event, by stating it was the officer’s call.  City Attorney Greg Priamos became stonefaced when he was caught off guard with the question that the actual directive came from him.  He laid claim to “attorney-client” privilege, meaning he’s protecting the mayor or some members of city council.  Well many in the community are flustered with City Hall’s response.  Even the  Riverside Police Officer’s Association fired off an incendiary letter claiming the city was basically trying to throw officer Sahagun under the bus by the following letter.  Further, as in TMC’s opinion, was the City of Riverside eluding that Officer Sahagun was lying on the police report?  The spin on this dirty laundry has placed the machine on over drive and an attempt to make it go away with a double rinse cycle.  According to the Press Enterprise, RPOA’s President Brian Smith stated, “You either have an officer that’s lying in a police report or you have an employee that’s not telling you the whole truth.”  Inadvertainly making claims against a police office can destroy their careers, especially if they decide to work elsewhere.  Councilman Paul Davis stated, “this officer has to be completely and totally exonerated … otherwise it could seriously hurt his career.  An officer has to tell the truth all the time and I believe this officer is.”

CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL LETTER

Now the members of the community have rallied around Officer Sahagun, and created “Team Sahagun.”   Appearing at a city council near you, in this case tomorrow council meeting beginning with an early start at 3:00pm due to the elections.  With this don’t forget to go out and vote and make a difference!

A LETTER TO THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR FROM MARY SHELTON:

From: mary shelton <chicalocaside@yahoo.com> To: Mike Gardner <mgardner@riversideca.gov>; “asmelendrez@riversideca.gov” <asmelendrez@riversideca.gov>; “rbailey@riversideca.gov” <rbailey@riversideca.gov>; Paul Davis <pdavis@riversideca.gov>; “cmacarthur@riversideca.gov” <cmacarthur@riversideca.gov>; “nhart@riversideca.gov” <nhart@riversideca.gov>; “sadams@riversideca.gov” <sadams@riversideca.gov>; “rloveridge@riversideca.gov” <rloveridge@riversideca.gov> Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 7:58 AM Subject:Doing the Right Thing

A LETTER TO THE COUNCIL, MAYOR AND PRESS ENTERPRISE FROM LETICIA PEPPER:

From: letitiapepper@yahoo.com To: letters@pe.com, letters@pe.net CC: sadams@riversideca.gov, rbailey@riversideca.gov, dbernstein@pe.com, bhudson@riversideca.gov, city_clerk@riversideca.gov, mgardner@riversideca.gov, nhart@riversideca.gov, rloveridge@riversideca.gov, cmacarthur@riversideca.gov, asmelendrez@riversideca.gov, pdavis@riversideca.gov Sent: 11/7/2012 8:32:30 P.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: Corrected Letter to the Editor re Op Ed Piece on the Karen Wright Incident

COMMENTERS ON THE PE:

It’s fairly obvious that when Mr. Priamos invokes his catch phrase of “attorney/client privilege” where none exists he is being less than forthcoming with the truth. This is not unusual since the truth is very elusive to our City Attorney. For him to state one of our officers is untruthful is a serious accusation since an officers credibility is the foundation of his career.  Mr.Priamos should “man up” and tell the truth instead of trying to defame a  member of our Police Department. I support Officer Sahagun and I am wondering  when our ex-RPD councilmember from Ward 7 is going to come out of hiding and support the membership that supported him.   – John Brandiff, Commenter on the PE

Yeah…the city council and mayor need to just man and woman up and the “client” needs to step forward and just admit what he or they did. But Smith is right in that the history of them doing that is not the best including prior incidents when police were directed to remove people from the podium by mayor pro tems including elderly women. The people that order these removals need to be very upfront about who’s doing it but somehow they just can’t do that. Isn’t that what elected leadership is all about? To take that role of being responsible?
I’m glad Davis is figuring it out but there’s six city council members and one mayor left to figure out that throwing people under the bus for their own actions is just not acceptable behavior. The mayor and CC have had two direct employees supposedly go “rogue” if you really believe that…in less than a month. They need to rein them in and hold them accountable. But not hide behind them either. If you want to call your mayor and CC people about this issue, the phone number for the CC is 951-826-5991 and the emails are: rloveridge@riversideca.gov ,  mgardner@riversideca.gov , asmelendrez@riversideca.gov , rbailey@riversideca.gov , pdavis@riversideca.gov , cmacarthur@riversideca.gov , nhart@riversideca.gov and sadams@riversideca.gov   -Mary Shelton, Commenter on the PE

TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE’S MOST “SLANDEROUS” AND MEZZSPELLED, “MISSPELLED” AND “OPINIONATED” BLOG SITE!  TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED.  I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU.  RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS..  TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE’S DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE’S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE’S FOR YOUR SUPPORT!   COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!  EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT!   THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM